The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-10
BILLIARDS WITH HIS NOSE
Making Carroms and Cushion Shsts
Without Using Cue or Fingers.

liam Sections big billiard room in
Broadway. 1t isn't often that the
grave old man takes his eyes off the
game at the nearest table, but his
scraps Of coaching were lost that
night on the two young men in dress
coats who were pounding the balls
heller skelter. So he turned sympa.
thetically to another youth who had
just taken a seat beside him and was
venting his feelings like this.
"Humph; think | could discount
either Of them with one am tied be.
hind my back. could beat EN-
both with my nose, for that matter,
though never heard Of anybody's
making a cue of that"
That's where you're away behind,
young. man." the expert drawled
again. But seem as you know bad
billiards when you see EN-, I'll just
tell you about gamo ran across
last winter like that"
The young man smiled incredu.
lousy. He thought, at the worst, il
was going 90 be a joke on some we'll
known billiard player, perhaps on
the renowned Sexton himself.
well" said the old man. gather
ing himslf together, you know what
finger billiards are, to start with.
'Yank' Adams used to play 'em all
around and people thought they were
a wonder for awhile. Now anybody
can play 'em aud beat the cue every
time. 1t will be the same way with
these nose billiards I'm going to tell
you about before long.
IL was sittin' over in Maurice
Days room in Brooklyn one night,
lookin' at Maurice do up some spry
young chaps that thought they knew
all about the game. Only one was
left aud il was gettin' toward mid
night when two big fellers that look
ed like FOUNDERS, only not so bad as
that, came in, and behind them a
short, small man with a broad red
face and bloomin' big shiny nose.
When Maurice stopped the little
man got cue and said bed play any
body in the house. The spry young
fellow went at him for small stake
aud won. Then he tried bigger
ono and won again. 1t was fifty
points up, three ball game, and the
young fellow had only FIVE points to
20 on the third string, when the
shiny nosed man threw down his
stick and said:
"'If de sheutlemans hay no OBJ
jeckshuus | will play me alretty nit
mine nose.
And he put his nose down side
wise against the cue ball, squinted
carefully, pushed and made a long,
hard carrom. Then pushing the cue
ball up, like Adams used TO do, he
placed it again, aimed, shot and
made a cushion. He didn't miss but
once, either, until he had run the
string away out. Maurice was so
knocked out that he forgot to- collect
the tariff on the table. The spry
young man had lost all he had made
and more too. He quit right of for
that night. The two big rounder-
looking fellows gathered in their
friend, whose nose was bleeding a lit
tie, and piloted him down and out.
They said il was a little joke of his
when he was on lark. never saw
him after that. But that nose game S
been running in my head ever since
the sort Of game they'll play in
next century, perhaps"
"Ah, yes, added the young man,
admiringly, "and what beautiful
players some OF the chosen tribe
will make"
Over at Maurice Days the next
afternoon one Of the markers could
remember family that some such ex.
traordinary match had taken place
You mean Josh, | guess. Kind
Of big nosed fellow that came in here
one night. But he played with 4 Gu,
when | saw him. Yes, go down OF
Fulton avenue ADD you'll run aeros
him in one OF the hotels
Josh" wasu'tat any Of the hotels
however The hotels, of course
we're mere beer shops with a billiard
room attachment. But a waiter a
one Of them had just seen him 9,
out.
"Oh, yah, der funny man, wat pla
de beelysrd init his nose. Jus 50
He play hier often NIT himself. I'll
der kleine shtick init Elm shtring au
his nose2 Oh, yah. | have hin
gesehen often"
Josh" himself denied this Jas
part Of tho big Germans story whe
ne was oollared at last under a stree
awning near the City Hall.
well, yes, maybe | did and may
be didn't play that game mp at Nj
Days. Aud IL may be just Iok
some OF my friends is playing on yo'
But / never used any little cue, II
played at all. This cues goo
enough for me" and tbs great bi
HARDEST tapped his big branchin
peach. blow nose fondly.
well, yes; l play the game" !
| went Ous Il w hlNlu gOu Nht oheit'
tip now, young Teller. My name
Josh Myers, snd count with n
nose faster than any amateur CT
with his cue, and my friends has z
800 10 say | can 10 any hall
Brooklyn. This il the way | learnt
You see | used 10 keep q billia'
table fore / went into the tobac
business, what I'm into now. Al
, one day an old Frenchman cat
, along aud he hired the table XII
. Of quiet aud he played OF there wi
] his nose. Aud | seen at first a
thought il was all ponesense, u
Q after the old man went away "a
20 myself that there must be sou
n thin into IL, 80 tried once q
2 kent on tryiu' till | got the hang.
. made my nose bleed at first sol
I and the tip Of it red and sore, !
it's all hardened up now aud |
q you | don't need no chalk
% swell, you've seea finger billiar
= haven't your It's the same game.
place my cue ball near the obj
ball aud then hit with my nose
carrom or cushion for the other.
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